Mina-san, o-tsukare-sama deshita! You’ve tackled one of the most difficult Japanese dialects and have an arsenal of Aomori vocabulary to amaze your Japanese friends (and trust me, they’ll really be surprised if you say any of these).

and this is the proverb that Nozomi-san mentioned:
猿も木から落ちる
さるもきからおちる
“even monkeys fall from trees”

Congratulations for this Aomoriben series.
I can’t wait for the Kansaiben lessons!
I think Kansai is the most visited part of Japan, so it couldl be very useful, as a lot of us will hear more Kansaiben than Japanese.

んだなー。のぞみちゃんはすげーだべ？

最近のぞみちゃんは超忙しくてあんまり時間がないんだけど、たまに、ジャパニーズポッドに戻りそうだよ。and as peter would say、 誓います！

でも、本当は、皆さんはスゴイと思います！このculture classはそんな人気があってマジでびっくりしました。のぞみちゃんもびっくりだって言ってましたよ。本当にお疲れ様でした！

今度、関西弁とか福岡弁とか猿弁とか勉強するべ！

宜しくお願いします

マーキー

そうですか。では、のぞみさんは頑張ってくださいね。そして、猿弁を楽しみしているんですよ 。

I’m just curious, is there a Tokyo-ben?

I got culture class 46 as Aomori dialect 4, where is culture class 47?

マーキ聞こえないとさびしいね！ノゾミ先生もマーキ先生ももどるんでしょ！

I just watched the movie Hula Girls and thought that the dialogue sounded like the Aomori-ben in these lessons! I think I caught some references in the film to it being set in Iwaki, which is Aomori prefecture. It was fun being able to catch some of the phrases and inflections in the movie after having heard them here on Japanese Pod 101.

I’ve just listened to this cold turkey, and yes, it’s the American-born Sansei with the Kibei parents from Fukushima again…

The surprise out of this was that I caught most of it on first hearing. The accent is just a tad heavier than what I’ve heard from my parents, so it is actually quite comprehensible, even though I’m very far from being a native speaker.

So, I’ll submit this sentence from my dad’s lexicon. Tell this to someone when you’re really surprised.

どでんしました。– which means — びっくりしました。

Here’s a set of phrase comparisons from this material between the southern and northern Tohoku-ben:

hyakkoi [ひゃっこい] vs. shakkoi [しゃっこい] - that’s actually very similar. I can see how this happens to work. It’s more efficient to say the Aomori-ben.

I’ve heard ippai [一杯] and unto [うんと] quite interchangeably as a child - vs. the Tsugaru-ben [がっぱ] - the setup before the conversation between the two monkeys was clear to such degree as to be able to pick this up. I’m not sure of it’s origin.

dagara itta be na [だがら言ったべな。] - this is identical to what I’d hear at home.

maine [まいね] gets rendered to the standard admonition. I wouldn’t know if I wasn’t told this, so this is original.

wa and wada [わ と わだ]
vs.
wachi and wachira [わち と わちら]

(Those I knew of the Nisei population with ancestors from Fukushima-ken use this phrase to mean I or we.)

The observation is that Fukushima-ben is less terse than Tsugaru-ben, but is more terse than textbook Japanese.

Apparently the various dialects in the Tohoku region get less terse with Fukushima-ben being the least terse among these.